Best Of - Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
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Gordon Lightfoot has died, at the age of 84. He spoke with the Academy of Achievement last year, and we featured that in... Read more
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T.J. Stiles and David Blight: The Epic Life
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